Tales of Larceny 1973
牛鬼蛇神
In “The Scholar and The Soldier”, Major Fang is obsessed with Yu Zhen by chance, knowing that she is the daughter of scholar Xu, he decided to enter their house in disguise with his page, and however, Yu Zhen's cousin comes back for the pre-arranged marriage at the same time. Li Han-hsiang both scripted and helmed “Tales of Larceny” about the scams cons worked and the games people played during the corrupt Chinese Warlord era, featuring a cast filled with the best of Shaw's exceptional character actors.
Vocabulary
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| 面向 面嚮 | to face; to turn towards; to incline to; geared towards; catering for; -oriented; facial feature; appearance; aspect; facet | |
| 有事 有事 | to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter | |
| 出名 出名 | well-known for sth; to become well known; to make one's mark; to lend one's name (to an event, endeavor etc) | |
| 亲眼 親眼 | with one's own eyes; personally | |
| 舌头 舌頭 | tongue; enemy soldier captured for the purpose of extracting information | |
| 打断 打斷 | to interrupt; to break off; to break (a bone) | |
| 嫌 嫌 | to dislike; suspicion; resentment; enmity; abbr. for 犯, criminal suspect | |
| 洋 洋 | ocean; vast; foreign; silver dollar or coin | |
| 赖 賴 | to depend on; to hang on in a place; bad; to renege (on promise); to disclaim; to rat (on debts); rascally; to blame; to put the blame on | |
| 珠宝 珠寶 | pearls; jewels; precious stones | |
| 番 番 | foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian; classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance); classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc); classifier for situations: kind, sort | |
| 炮 炮 | to sauté; to fry; to dry by heating | |
| 掏 掏 | to fish out (from pocket); to scoop | |
| 串 串 | to string together; to skewer; to connect wrongly; to gang up; to rove; string; bunch; skewer; classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of; to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus); to move across | |
| 园 園 | land used for growing plants; site used for public recreation; abbr. for a place ending in 园, such as a botanical garden 植物园, kindergarten 幼儿园 etc | |
| 出事 出事 | to have an accident; to meet with a mishap | |
| 欺负 欺負 | to bully | |
| 病情 病情 | state of an illness; patient's condition | |
| 四处 四處 | all over the place; everywhere and all directions | |
| 肝 肝 | liver; (slang) to put in long hours, typically late into the night, playing (a video game); (of a video game) involving a lot of repetition in order to progress; grindy | |
| 妙 妙 | clever; wonderful | |
| 金钱 金錢 | money; currency | |
| 狠 狠 | ruthless; fierce; ferocious; determined; to harden (one's heart); old variant of 很 | |
| 算了 算了 | let it be; let it pass; forget about it | |
| 大街 大街 | street; main street | |
| 一时 一時 | a period of time; a while; for a short while; temporary; momentary; at the same time | |
| 夺 奪 | to seize; to take away forcibly; to wrest control of; to compete or strive for; to force one's way through; to leave out; to lose | |
| 肯 肎 | to agree; to consent; to be willing to | |
| 精 精 | essence; extract; vitality; energy; semen; sperm; mythical goblin spirit; highly perfected; elite; the pick of sth; proficient (refined ability); extremely (fine); selected rice (archaic) | |
| 野 埜 | field; plain; open space; limit; boundary; rude; feral | |
| 妇女 婦女 | woman | |
| 顺 順 | to obey; to follow; to arrange; to make reasonable; along; favorable | |
| 形 形 | to appear; to look; form; shape | |
| 托 託 | prop; support (for weight); rest (e.g. arm rest); thanks to; to hold in one's hand; to support in one's palm; to give; to base; to commit; to set; torr (unit of pressure) | |
| 不见 不見 | not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing | |
| 端 端 | end; extremity; item; port; to hold sth level with both hands; to carry; regular | |
| 再说 再說 | to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides | |
| 踢 踢 | to kick; to play (e.g. soccer); (slang) butch (in a lesbian relationship) | |
| 印 印 | to print; to mark; to engrave; a seal; a print; a stamp; a mark; a trace; image | |
| 罪 罪 | guilt; crime; fault; blame; sin | |
| 军队 軍隊 | armed forces; troops | |
| 混 混 | to mix; to mingle; muddled; to drift along; to muddle along; to pass for; to get along with sb; thoughtless; reckless | |
| 服 服 | clothes; dress; garment; to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc); to obey; to be convinced (by an argument); to convince; to admire; to acclimatize; to take (medicine); mourning clothes; to wear mourning clothes | |
| 队伍 隊伍 | ranks; troops; queue; line; procession | |
| 命 命 | life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc | |
| 清 清 | (of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted; clear; distinct; to clear; to settle (accounts) | |
| 入 入 | to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; to confirm or agree with; abbr. for 入声 | |
| 作 作 | worker; workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person) | |
| 如 如 | as; as if; such as | |
| 与 與 | and; to give; together with |